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-Stephanie Lee
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Hello. My name is Niclas Mehne and I am a NYFA Film School graduate 1 year filmmaking program 2006/07 Los Angeles.
I had a great time in Los Angeles. I am from Germany and filmmaking in the USA was a little bit different comparing to Germany. I am now at a another filmschool in Germany and I have to say, it´s not the same.
I liked the NYFA program because of great teachers and the large amount of knowledge I´ve got. I think you can’t learn more in one year and you learn the basics you need to make movies any where else.
I liked the fact that every student is writing, directing and editing his own films. That everybody is doing a film. At my new school not every directing student gets the chance to direct a movie. I think also that if everybody is making a movie one gets a feeling of who of the other students has talent and who are not so great filmmakers.
I liked the fact that student shoot on film, what is really great. Instructor Alan Fiterman is great too.
Like I said I had great time and I am thinking about doing the MFA proramm in a few years.
Right now I wrote a new shortfilm and I am trying to get into production with it. I am still intouch with some of m friends I got to know at NYFA and they are great filmmakers.
- Niclas Mehne
(BBC News) A graduate of New York Film Academy Film School produced and starred in a film, executive produced by the Hollywood director of The Bourne Identity.
Nicole Davidow, of Anglia Ruskin University, is due to release her short film Camelthorns at the end of March.
It has been made by her and her friend Genevieve Detering, who studied at the New York Film Academy where she met director Doug Liman.
The director, whose films also include Mr and Mrs Smith, agreed to back it.
“When the script was written and the business plan was put together [before it was presented to Doug Liman] I mailed it to my tutors in Cambridge to look over and send me their opinion,” said Miss Davidow.
Join NCAC, Reel Works, Global Action Project and Kahlil Almustafa at the New York Film Academy on March 27th from 1-4pm for an afternoon of youth films, fun prizes, and great performances! Meet the winners of the NCAC’s 6th Annual film contest and make connections while exploring the power of youth-media.
Who: National Coalition Against Censorship partners with Kahlil Almustafa, Reel Works, Global Action Project and the New York Film Academy.
What: NCAC screens winning films from the Youth Free Expression Network film contest “Free Speech in schools (Does it Exist?),” and films by and for youth from Reel Works and Global Action Project. Hip Hop poet Kahlil Almustafa performs his poetry as part of the celebration. A conversation with the filmmakers follows the screening.
Where: New York Film Academy, screening room, 100 East 17th Street, near Union Square (Take the N,R,Q,W,4,5,6,L to Union Square)
When: Saturday, March 27 1:00 - 4:00 PM
Reservations: (212) 807-6222, ext. 19 or yfen@ncac.org
Tickets: FREE and open to the public!
The Youth Free Expression Network is a program of the National Coalition Against Censorship and is made possible by support from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation.
